{ "model": { "rank": 3365, "code": "thing-q12068677", "model_id": "vr.tr.selfie", "name": "selfie", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a selfie, assess its provenance and presentation, and determine appropriate editing, sharing and reuse actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q12068677/", "tier": 2, "score": 87, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Shelfie", "thirst trap", "tit pic", "group selfie", "space selfie", "Dronie", "Sleeveface", "Ballot selfie", "3D selfie", "dick pic" ], "aliasCount": 10, "merged": 10, "knownIn": 87, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q12068677", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12068677", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:34:06Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 25.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07c49-45d1-7101-b050-9ef3c1b6c318\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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self-representation, including the relationship between depicted people and capture agency, its framing, image variants and circulation context; it distinguishes the image from its files, posts and physical carriers.", "in_scope": [ "Whether a depicted person initiated or controlled the photographic capture", "Individual, group and mirror selfies, with explicit treatment of uncertain capture agency", "Framing, setting and intended self-presentation", "Relationships between the captured image and edited or distributed variants", "Permissions and contextual constraints affecting depiction, editing and circulation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Camera, phone and selfie-stick hardware specifications", "General portrait photography where capture is controlled by another person", "Painted, drawn or wholly synthetic self-portraits as independent creative forms", "Social platform accounts, posts and engagement systems beyond their relationship to the selfie", "Biometric identity verification and psychological diagnosis of depicted people" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A person represented in the image must also have a relevant role in initiating or controlling capture; appearing in a portrait alone does not establish that it is a selfie.", "An extended arm, visible phone or mirror reflection can support classification but cannot independently prove who controlled capture.", "A selfie can include several people; the model distinguishes the capture-controlling participant from other depicted participants.", "A photographic self-representation can remain a selfie without being posted online; posting is a separate event.", "A crop, filter or repost is tracked in relation to its source image rather than automatically treated as a new capture." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Self-capture classification", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported | disputed | unresolved | excluded", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a portrait-like appearance or a caption from being treated as sufficient evidence of self-capture." }, { "name": "Capture agency", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Depicted participant linked to framing, trigger operation or capture delegation, with evidence", "why_it_matters": "Records the relationship central to recognising a selfie without conflating trigger operation with authorship." }, { "name": "Capture arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "handheld direct | mirror-mediated | timer | remote trigger | other | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Explains how self-capture occurred and identifies cases needing boundary review." }, { "name": "Depicted participant count", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of intentionally included people; unknown where ambiguous", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes solo and group composition while separating intended participants from incidental bystanders." }, { "name": "Self-presentation intent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Participant-stated purpose, such as personal record, social sharing or promotion; unstated", "why_it_matters": "Supports contextual interpretation without inferring motives from facial expression or appearance." }, { "name": "Image derivation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Source capture linked to crop, retouch, filter, composite or other variant", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to explain how the visible representation differs from the available source." }, { "name": "Sensitive visual exposure", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Visible or embedded exposure of location, bystanders, private surroundings or identifiers; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Supports review of details the photographer may not have intended to distribute." }, { "name": "Use-specific permission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "documented | conditional | refused | unknown, separately for each person and proposed use", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating willingness to appear in a selfie as permission for every subsequent use." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate selfie and explain the evidence and remaining uncertainty about capture agency.", "Link original captures, edited variants and circulating copies without merging distinct capture events.", "Describe framing and visible context while separating observations from participant-stated intentions.", "Identify background details and metadata that merit review before sharing.", "Assess a proposed edit, publication or reuse against recorded permissions and audience constraints.", "Prepare a crop, redaction or caption that preserves the intended representation and records material changes." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "self-capture-identity", "name": "Self-capture identity", "description": "Establishes why the image qualifies as a selfie and whose capture agency supports that classification.", "rationale": "A selfie is distinguished from a portrait by a relationship between depiction and capture, which appearance alone may not establish.", "layers": [ { "id": "depiction-and-agency", "name": "Depiction and agency", "description": "Connects the depicted participant to the production of the photograph.", "findings": [ { "id": "depicted-capture-participant", "name": "Depicted capture participant", "description": "Record which depicted participant framed, initiated or controlled capture, distinguishing evidence from attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which depicted participant controlled framing or initiated capture, and what evidence supports that relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "depicted-capture-participant-q01" }, { "text": "If another person operated the shutter, what supports or challenges classification as a selfie?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "depicted-capture-participant-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capture-arrangement", "name": "Capture arrangement", "description": "Records the means of self-capture and cases where those means leave classification uncertain.", "findings": [ { "id": "self-capture-mechanism", "name": "Self-capture mechanism", "description": "Distinguish direct handheld, mirror, timer and remote capture without requiring a visible phone or arm.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the photograph made directly, through a mirror, with a timer or through another capture arrangement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "self-capture-mechanism-q01" }, { "text": "What remains unknown about capture control when the image contains no visible capture device?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "self-capture-mechanism-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "self-presentation-and-composition", "name": "Self-presentation and composition", "description": "Records how participants present themselves and how the frame situates them.", "rationale": "The framing of oneself, alone or with others, is central to interpreting a selfie and making responsible edits.", "layers": [ { "id": "participant-composition", "name": "Participant composition", "description": "Distinguishes the self-capturing participant, invited co-participants and incidental people.", "findings": [ { "id": "group-selfie-roles", "name": "Group selfie roles", "description": "Record who is intentionally included and how their role differs from the person controlling capture.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many people are intentionally included, and which are incidental bystanders or reflections?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "group-selfie-roles-q01" }, { "text": "Would a proposed crop remove the self-capturing participant or materially change the apparent group relationship?", "kind": "action", "id": "group-selfie-roles-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "framing-and-intent", "name": "Framing and intent", "description": "Separates observable presentation choices from attributed motives.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-self-representation", "name": "Situated self-representation", "description": "Record pose, framing, setting and participant-stated purpose without treating appearance as evidence of personality or emotional state.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which visible framing choices place emphasis on the face, body, companions, activity or surroundings?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-self-representation-q01" }, { "text": "What purpose or intended audience has a participant actually stated, and where is that statement recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-self-representation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "capture-and-image-variants", "name": "Capture and image variants", "description": "Tracks the photographic capture and changes to the self-representation across variants.", "rationale": "Selfies often circulate as cropped, filtered or retouched images whose relationship to the capture must remain intelligible.", "layers": [ { "id": "capture-lineage", "name": "Capture lineage", "description": "Distinguishes separate exposures from copies and edits of one exposure.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-capture-link", "name": "Source capture link", "description": "Identify the available source capture and relate candidate copies or variants to it with an explicit confidence level.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence links this image to an original capture or an earlier available version?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-capture-link-q01" }, { "text": "Are similar images separate burst exposures, edits of one photograph or duplicate files?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "source-capture-link-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-changes", "name": "Representation changes", "description": "Records edits that affect how the participants or capture context are represented.", "findings": [ { "id": "appearance-and-context-edits", "name": "Appearance and context edits", "description": "Distinguish known changes to appearance, framing and surroundings from suspected changes that have not been verified.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which filters, retouching, mirroring, background replacements or compositing steps are documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "appearance-and-context-edits-q01" }, { "text": "Does the proposed use require a disclosure because an edit changes apparent appearance, participation or location?", "kind": "action", "id": "appearance-and-context-edits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "depiction-permissions-and-exposure", "name": "Depiction permissions and exposure", "description": "Records participant permissions and unintended information revealed by the selfie.", "rationale": "Control over taking a selfie does not establish authority over every depicted person, background detail or subsequent use.", "layers": [ { "id": "participant-permissions", "name": "Participant permissions", "description": "Separates capture participation, permission to circulate and relevant rights claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-authority", "name": "Use-specific authority", "description": "Record permission evidence for each proposed use and keep depicted-person permission distinct from authorship and licensing.", "questions": [ { "text": "What permission is documented for sharing or editing the depiction of each intended participant?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "use-specific-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Who claims authority to license this selfie, and what supports that claim beyond possessing or posting the file?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "use-specific-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "incidental-disclosure", "name": "Incidental disclosure", "description": "Reviews information exposed through surroundings, reflections and embedded metadata.", "findings": [ { "id": "selfie-exposure-review", "name": "Selfie exposure review", "description": "Identify details outside the intended self-presentation that may warrant participant review or redaction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do mirrors, windows, screens, badges or metadata reveal people, identifiers or location beyond the intended subject?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "selfie-exposure-review-q01" }, { "text": "Which details should be cropped, blurred or removed for the proposed audience, based on recorded preferences?", "kind": "action", "id": "selfie-exposure-review-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "circulation-and-context", "name": "Circulation and context", "description": "Connects the selfie to its presentations and evaluates how redistribution changes its meaning or audience.", "rationale": "The same selfie can appear in private exchanges, public posts or promotional material with different captions and permissions.", "layers": [ { "id": "image-and-post-boundary", "name": "Image and post boundary", "description": "Separates image identity from publication events and surrounding platform content.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-presentation", "name": "Contextual presentation", "description": "Link each known presentation to its image variant, caption and audience without making the post the identity of the selfie.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which image variant appears in this presentation, and what caption or surrounding material accompanies it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contextual-presentation-q01" }, { "text": "Is the change a new photographic capture, a new image variant or another publication of the same image?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contextual-presentation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "redistribution-decisions", "name": "Redistribution decisions", "description": "Evaluates proposed circulation against documented context and permissions.", "findings": [ { "id": "audience-and-meaning-shift", "name": "Audience and meaning shift", "description": "Record when a proposed repost, caption or promotional use changes the audience or implication of the self-representation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Would the proposed use imply endorsement, attendance or a relationship that the available capture context does not support?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "audience-and-meaning-shift-q01" }, { "text": "What permission, attribution or contextual explanation is needed before this particular redistribution can proceed?", "kind": "action", "id": "audience-and-meaning-shift-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the photographic image sense, rather than the act of taking a selfie.", "Usage varies at the boundary with formally staged self-portraits, particularly those made using tripods, timers or remote triggers.", "No universal selfie-specific identifier, technical standard or measurement range is asserted; ordinary image formats and metadata schemes can apply." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of selfie this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Individual selfie", "Group selfie", "Mirror selfie" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of selfie this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Personal documentation and visual diaries", "Social communication and online self-presentation", "Recording participation in events or visits to places", "Identity verification through services that request a facial self-image" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of selfie this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Close camera placement can produce perspective distortion that changes apparent facial proportions.", "Blur, poor exposure or obstructed faces can make an image unsuitable for its intended purpose.", "Background details or embedded location metadata can disclose private information.", "Taking selfies in dangerous locations can distract the photographer and contribute to injury.", "Sharing group selfies without participants' agreement can create privacy conflicts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of selfie this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Self-portrait", "difference": "Self-portrait is the broader category and includes painting, drawing and other media; a selfie is photographic." }, { "name": "Portrait photograph", "difference": "A portrait photograph need not be made by its subject; a selfie requires the maker to appear in the image." }, { "name": "Group photograph", "difference": "A group photograph is a group selfie when one of the people pictured makes the photograph." }, { "name": "Digital image file", "difference": "The file is an encoding or copy of the image; the same selfie can exist in multiple files, resolutions and formats." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of selfie this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Where should the selfie boundary fall when a depicted person directs capture but another person operates the camera?", "Should timer captures, automated booth photographs and extracted self-recorded video frames all be included, or linked as neighbouring forms?", "How should a heavily composited or generatively altered selfie be classified when its photographic source remains identifiable?", "Which distinctions between image work, expression, file and publication are useful for selfie variants without treating every edit as a new work?", "Which jurisdiction- and platform-specific rules govern authorship, depicted-person permissions and reuse for the intended applications?" ], 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a selfie, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a selfie, assess its provenance and presentation, and determine appropriate editing, sharing and reuse actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Shelfie, thirst trap, tit pic, group selfie, space selfie, Dronie, Sleeveface, Ballot selfie, 3D selfie, dick pic.", "10 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 87 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a selfie, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. 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Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a selfie, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a selfie, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a selfie is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a selfie, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a selfie, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a selfie is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a selfie sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a selfie, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a selfie, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a selfie is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a selfie from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a selfie, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a selfie, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a selfie is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a selfie passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a selfie between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a selfie, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a selfie, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a selfie is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a selfie, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a selfie is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a selfie, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a selfie, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a selfie is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a selfie says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a selfie contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a selfie, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a selfie, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a selfie is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a selfie and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a selfie, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a selfie, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a selfie is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of selfie a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For selfie, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of selfie exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made selfie and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to selfie, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in selfie, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a selfie came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a selfie and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a selfie, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a selfie, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a selfie is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a selfie is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a selfie, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a selfie, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a selfie is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }